Carrie (1976)

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The school wallflower and the brunt of her classmates' jokes, Carrie's revenge is the focus of this tense and stylish horror film. This is the film that made Sissy Spacek a star and featured John Travolta and Amy Irving in their first important screen roles. Carrie established director Brian DePalma as a new creative force in motion pictures.

Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles, and Nancy Allen plot to avenge themselves on ostracized fellow student and budding telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) after they get in trouble for pelting her with tampons. When they get popular boy Tommy Ross (William Katz) to be her date for the prom, the stage is set for some heart-rending cruelty and fiery retribution. De Palma expertly uses split screens, slow motion, color filters, and tracking shots to imbue the proceedings with a

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External Reviews

Strong performances by Spacek and Laurie, De Palma's stylish directorial touches and an impressive finale makes this effort based on Stephen King's novel shine. 

Brian DePalma directs this with a sure hand, moving quickly from one startling image to another... 

--Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)

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The film could have been a masterpiece, if not for the lame humor De Palma threw in. Bad humor is, sadly, another De Palma trademark, and it comes across as goofy and needless. But it's a minor flaw and doesn't prevent "Carrie" from being one of the besthorror films of the 1970s.

-- (eSplatter.com)

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Directed by

Brian De Palma Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables, Scarface

Written by

Stephen King The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining Lawrence D. Cohen It, The Tommyknockers, Ghost Story

Cast

Sissy Spacek JFK, The Straight Story, The Ring Two Piper Laurie The Faculty, The Hustler, Twin Peaks Amy Irving Traffic, Hide and Seek, The Rage: Carrie 2 Nancy Allen Out of Sight, RoboCop, Robocop 2 John Travolta Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, The Thin Red Line William Katt Jawbreaker, House, Twin Falls Idaho Betty Buckley Frantic, Simply Irresistible, Tender Mercies [more]

Simply, an excellent piece of cinema with a blissfully terrifying soundtrack, superb casting and lots of blood, which is what we like!  --Steven (Bloody-Disgusting.com)